“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.”

—  Clive Staples Lewis , book The Problem of Pain

The Problem of Pain (1940)

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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